actualy the oldest written joke was written in persia around 2000 bc
its a one liner joke which makes very little sense in the modern world
roughly translated as
"once a young women sat on her husbands lap and did not fart"
yeah....not exactly hilarious but still

English wasn't made suddenly you know,they are compiled words from other languages,and back in the 10th century,english are referred as Anglish.If you were to watch Vsauce english video,you would probably understand what I'm saying